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about developping an application to control a robot over RS232
Do you have a robot controller ? Does it have a command set which control can be used to issue commands to the robot ? If so I would do two programs. The first would be a lower level program issuing commands to the controller and listening for responses. It would translate seemingly english...- adamshir
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- Forum: Automation & Robotic engineering
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Impact deceleration for robotics safety
Hi Thanks for the input thus far. I'm looking at the safety guarding aspects of a laboratory automation application for a biotech company. The robots are Scara type robot arms with Z-axis capability and are table mounted. What I am trying to do is get a feel for the injury that being...- adamshir
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- Forum: Mechanical engineering general discussion
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Impact deceleration for robotics safety
Hi, I'm working on figuring out how badly a person gets hurt if hit by the robot. I was planning to determining this using F=ma. Given a force I was hoping to find someway of correlating this with severity of injury to give me a rough idea. I've worked out the top speed of the robot, the weight...- adamshir
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- Forum: Mechanical engineering general discussion
